Re: Automatic Glossaries

[Sean Wheller <sean enbaya co za>]

On Friday 09 January 2004 22:13, Eric Baudais wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:47:29PM +0200, Sean Wheller wrote:
> > On Friday 09 January 2004 19:45, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 10:23, Sean Wheller wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Can we use Automatically Generated Glossary in GNOME2 Documents?
> > > >
> > > > Will Yelp stylesheets handle it?
> > >
> > > I'm not sure how you expect glossaries to be generated automatically.
> > > The definitions have to come from somewhere.  While DocBook allows you
> > > to put glossterms inline, this is only for the purpose of linking to
> > > the appropriate glossentry in the glossary.
> > >
> > > There's no provision in DocBook for putting the glossdef inline in your
> > > content.  Even if there were, I wouldn't recommend using it, as it
> > > would be a content management nightmare.
> >
> > Please see
> > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Glossaries.html
> >
> > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/GlossDatabase.html
>
> Sean-
>
> Those links, I believe, refer to Norman Walsh's DocBook XSL
> stylesheets.  Those stylesheets were too slow for Yelp.  Shaun has
> made a new set of DocBook XSL stylesheets which are very fast.
> However they do not support the auto role of the glossary element.
>
> Eric Baudais

Thanks Eric, that answered my question. The stylesheets used in Yelp do not 
currently support this functionality.

Sean Wheller